Things That Should Never Have Existed

You can see them, but they would rather you couldn't

Bai Yuan always thought he was simply ill: he couldn't feel fear.

He doesn't panic when a truck speeds toward him; he feels no dread walking alone through a haunted house at night; even when he witnesses a bloody scene of bodies torn apart, his heart keeps beating steadily.

But one sentence from psychiatrist Zhou Yexiao completely shattered his calm facade:

**“It's not that you don't feel fear. You've been chosen by ‘them’: the shadows writhing in the gaps between crowds, the twisted shapes peering from behind mirrors, the inhuman things whispering in the dead of night. They really exist, and they feed on human fear. Bai Yuan's ‘fearlessness’ isn't a gift, but a fatal abnormality.

**“The Shadow Eaters won't devour him, but something far more dangerous will.**

To survive, Bai Yuan is forced to enter the Night Owl Clinic, a mysterious organization dedicated to containing, studying, and hunting “things that should not exist.” Here, he must learn:

✔ **How to survive in a monster-infested world without fear to warn him**

✔ **How to use his “abnormality” to become a hunter rather than prey**

✔ **How to tell whether the “companions” at the clinic are more dangerous than the Shadow Eaters**

However, as the truth gradually emerges, Bai Yuan discovers that his lack of fear is no accident, but part of a carefully orchestrated conspiracy.

**, When the world itself is a lie, ignorance is the last refuge, **